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Chef Conwi creates luxurious meals out of salvaged surplus food.

AN artist with a love of nature, particularly flowers and birds, is opening her studio to visitors over the bank holiday weekend. Denny Webb, who lives in rural...

I stopped to chat. They laughed. The duck smiled with his eyes. The duck, a Swedish blue, was a household pet, the likes of which I had never seen. I couldn’t stop staring. “When the duck’s inside the house it wears a diaper,” I was told. He was beautiful. I said my goodbyes and thought to myself, “Maybe Rollo (my medium-size shih tzu) would like a duck friend.” Then I thought, maybe not. And later, definitely not. Winter is over, spring is here and I want my life to be easier. Simpler. No more using fabric tablecloths every day, maybe just wipeable place mats. B...

A landmark Jackson restaurant is undergoing big changes, but one of the goals is to make sure they are changes that won’t change the customer experience. The Blue Lion deal officially closed Feb. 1, sold by Ned Brown to Joe Rice’s Blue Collar Restaurant Group. The takeover began with behind-the-scenes activity about two months before. Rice, best known as owner of Sidewinders American Grill, Merry Piglets Mexican Grill and Bubba’s BBQ, said he plans no big alteration in what diners will experience at The Blue Lion. “The first thing people say is, ‘Oh, my God, you’...